egyptians vote in the final stage of the referendum on the islamist drafted constitution that sparked violent protests and clashes with many doubts about results will quell the monthlong turmoil. moscow is one step closer to banning all adoptions of russian troops. triggered by an increasing number of abuse cases and even some deaths. the storm of reaction in russia. and all you don't want for christmas as festive something people gathers pace we look at what gifts risk ending up in the bed the very next day.

from our new studios in moscow this is r.t. it's a decisive day for egypt as people vote on a draft constitution that split the nation and triggered a month long protest the second and final leg of the referendum was preceded by a fresh outbreak of violence in egypt second largest city of alexandria a car based journalist well true explain what's expected from that and whether the outcome is likely to end the turmoil. millions of egyptians across seventeen governorates our heads headed to the polling stations today to votes in the second and final round of egypt's contentious constitutional referendum yesterday this once again was the fact of the violence as we saw clashes in this in egypt's second city alexandria between those who follow the constitution those who are against the

constitution this happened on islamist staged a hundred thousand strong rally in support of the constitution and the implementation of sharia law the two sides hold rocks at each other they burned cars and buses some saying these buses belong to the muslim brotherhood police intervened with tear gas leaving seventy seven injured so this obviously comes under the after several instances of violence is in alexandria in cairo few weeks ago in cairo and from the presidential palace rival groups clashed leaving ten dead in terms of people are saying here on the streets the country is divided those who are against the constitution say will only enforce a presidential dictatorship but it lacks a key social economic rights that was drafted by islamist dominated assembly for the constitution say it is essential for the progress towards democracy after the conditions drafted they say we will have parliamentary elections in the first round of course the votes people voted in fifty seven percent in favor of the constitution analysts believe that this will be another yes votes this is largely

because of the seventeen governorates voting today many of them a rule cultural places where the muslim brotherhood have quite a strong support base of the seventeen voting today only three voted against the president in the presidential or in the presidential elections leading many to believe that this will in fact be yes votes the opposition forces for their part say that the only reason it was a yes vote in the first round was due to vote rigging rights groups did document several cases of electoral violations including unsupervised polling stations leaving both rights groups on the opposition forces to call for a rerun of the first round of the referendum saying it is actually not in boyd's issue judicial supervision remains a point of contention here that judges continue to boycott the referendum really will just have to see the outcome of the results as they come in later on today in the early hours of tomorrow morning but definitely could be expected by their own rest in the streets either way that both sides refused to back down. well bell is of course following developments in egypt you can see her latest updates via our

twitter feed as r.t. underscore com and get interactive. earlier i spoke to an independent person analyst dan glazebrook who explained why the opposition's key request for a delay in the referendum was never an option for the president and the muslim brotherhood breo main problem with this referendum is that it's being rushed through before egyptians are really had a chance to take on board the momentous are people of the last year what it signifies and also before they've had a chance to really understand what the policies of the muslim brotherhood actually are so this is all being rushed through has been rushed through deliberately before people had a chance to take stock and before the opposition had a chance to organize themselves as well not to get this was it is a pretty unprecedented the biggest mass movement in egypt in fifty years what we saw burst into the streets last year in egypt and so the opposition have not really had a chance to the holy organize themselves through to present

a clear program out of the electorate and so on the muslim brotherhood of course on the other hand are organized and have been allowed actually to organize in certain spheres of egyptian right for several decades. but more expert analysis of the situation in egypt as well as the timeline of recent protests and the most dramatic videos or is available on our website r.t. dot com. five hundred dollars that's the cost a u.s. marine sergeant will pay for a year in eighteen on the bodies of dead afghan soldiers he was demoted and will see his pay docked after admitting to desecration or political activist david swanson says the sentence is too lenient and highlights how the u.s. military has lost touch with reality in afghanistan. it's absurdly low it's insultingly low but so is the charge and i mean this is someone guilty of creating corpses of killing human beings who is then prosecuted for having desecrated them

after the fact this is this is the problem with our culture of violence that we that we think we're going to civilized war that if we didn't cut off the fingers and you're an aid on the bodies then it would be ok so we have a long ways to go to get into to a better legal as well as moral understanding because americans like to think that their government must have some justification for what it does it builds the idea that it is folk to occupy the nations of other people that we had an incident this week in the united states of other former soldier attacking a mosque or to seek revenge for u.s. soldiers who had lost their lives of broad without stopping to understand that they were occupying someone else's country so we have this rule in hatred for muslims for afghans for pakistanis in the united states it is it is the doing of the u.s. government and its occupations and its drone wars but the longer they go on the

more the ill will builds both at home and of course in the nations being occupied and being subjected to drone strikes that. the a case has once again highlighted concerns over america's continuing presence in afghanistan but president obama says he's hoping to turn a page on a decade of war after naming senator john kerry as the next secretary of state defense analyst ivan eland these carries appointments could lead to a less aggressive u.s. foreign policy. we're in fiscal crisis here and i think we're going to have to retract the clause of the empire big and i think no nothing was ever done about that maybe john kerry will change he probably won't change dramatically because i think united states is into the. perception of running the world and i just don't think we can do it financially and i don't even think it's desirable but i think you know we went into libya we went into we put more troops in afghanistan those

were bad moves in my opinion so i think. you may have a more dovish line coming from kerry than you did from hillary clinton you're watching r t well still ahead for you with the problems continue to mount for greece as now all of the country's main front so looking for ways to stay afloat after posting massive losses take a closer look at why plus. to greece now with minister of regional corporation minister of agriculture minister of housing and construction. and minister of justice even how those little tenuously israel prepares for elections amid increasing concerns over the country's political processes. as the clocks countdown to christmas and many people will be making a last minute dash to the shops to think twice before purchasing that novelty present as the recipients might not be that grateful. explains it from the hustle

and bustle of london. but most of us know the problem for someone celebrating after the twentieth christmas buying a present can be perplexing there's nothing they need or don't own already hugh the invention of your humorous christmas present for example the christmas jumper what happens to these presents the day after christmas been given this christmas presents every christmas and turning them away on boxing day. probably give it away just to make myself feel better and then get rid of them could you give me an example of a useless christmas present you may never see. i was given a call from work. you probably can't put it on sale for any other. woman in a bikini when you pull the hot water and she becomes like a bikini peels off what was that. to hang but you have been given like

junk for christmas stuff that you just throw away on boxing day yes what was going to you just. have only just bought some junk for christmas i think i might have just bought some junk for christmas. day on boxing day it's nice to have three christmas presents away oh look we just came from australia and so we had a christmas before we came and so over stuff that we got given. straight into the bin junk for christmas no useless present sometimes yes she turned away after christmas absolutely not much to do with them. usually just give them to my sister and i actually have received coloring crayons two years ago so they didn't last long. and i don't think an idea anymore those who are worried about the status of the planet say that the problem nowadays is that a lot of the items on sale don't have any purpose whatsoever they designed to

squeeze a lot of the recipient and then the binge on boxing day so this year feel free to forget to buy a present or two you'll be saving the environment while you're on to. more international nice after this short break. well for the. science technology innovation called the least i'm elements from around russia we've got the future covered. divine power in action activate the sacraments. i am just so we

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welcome back to you with. a bill of prohibiting u.s. citizens from adopting russian children has been passed by the no house of parliament in moscow almost unanimous the vote comes after a series of child abuse cases and brought. the stories which led to the latest missions. the adoption agreement that russia and the u.s.

signed in november was designed to provide mechanisms so far overside for russian children adopted by american families but moscow claims it is still being met with obstacles when it attempts to inquire an adopted children stood here or so many lies about the real conditions of children adopted by u.s. parents we have no idea what's really going on the united states does not do follow ups once an adoption is finalized there is untold numbers of children that are enduring abuses that haven't been reported that haven't resulted in their get better just surviving the case of alan who was adopted from russia and she was placed in a home of the tete a file she was discovered because of a a child pornography sting and she told reporters and such that she waited every day and kept praying and believing that somehow the adoption agency

that placed her there would come back and check on her and she would have been able to tell them but nobody ever came much of the fury in moscow over the brutal treatment of adopted russian children has been driven by the leniency american judges of shown towards a number of abusers the adoptive father of two year olds who may get a couple was acquitted after she forgot the boy his car for nine hours the toddler died of heat stroke the parents of russian born to faneuil craver have been released on bail after being convicted of involuntary manslaughter. the quavers have dodged a murder sentence even though investigators discovered that the child had suffered repeated beatings from his adoptive parents which left him with over eighty bruises and injuries of which twenty were to his head judges have also shown leniency in cases of abuse which did not result in the death of the child jessica bigley received probation after she went on a popular t.v. show and bragged of how she disciplined her adopted russian child by systematically

cramming hot sauce. and putting him under a cold shower russian officials say they were denied any access to another washroom one not seen the bio of who was allegedly abused by his foster parents according to florida quoted that at a time when the adoption rate in russia itself is low the situation around us it seems even more dire u.s. accounts for around the third of all glory to russia and there are hundreds of successful cases each year with the latest developments over whether that good work can continue the argument that if there is a flight of transport or friend to find a happy home they should be given that chance is undoubted but just as indisputable seems the or given that there has to be more oversight over the well being of. dozens of adopted children could be subject to abuse and we may never

use the power of the media to pay tribute to his beloved for the good friend find out more. all four of greece's largest banks are queuing up for a bailout boost after reporting huge losses this year together they'll need around twenty seven in euros worth of those to stay afloat but greece has been relying on

international bailout funds since twenty ten and has economists in a pool a success it's ordinary greeks who are bearing the brunt of the bank's losses the loans on which. this recapitalization a bank sector is going to take our come from the troika the e.u. the i.m.f. and the e.c.b. and they are going to be aid they're going to be part of the greek it national debt which is going to be paid by the greek taxpayer and we had forty thousand small businesses closing this year alone three hundred additional thousands of job losses as a total unemployment rate of twenty six percent so we have really. on the one hand austerity on the other hand bank inability to

provide liquidity for the market greece may be preparing for another year of painful cuts and tax hikes but for a while the outer con where the global economy stands at the end of twenty twelve you can tune into the kaiser report later today here in arctic. it's five years since the beginning of the global financial collapse governments are eating their own vomit central banks are smoking their own belly button land and still don't know whether we deflation inflation hyper inflation since you haven't. we have crazy fallaciously we're going to try to determine it a little bit closer to whether we have inflation deflation hyperinflation. the fear money fairy queen.

or some other international news in brief for you this hour. hundreds of students have again clashed with police in chile what's brought me here in the heart of protest leaders of the student movement say they're fed up with. private universities students who won a major victory two days ago she was just dismissed as toys to want. to resign corruption scandal. lisa protesters have clashed in india's capital leaving several people injured demonstrators calling for the death penalty to be handed down to five men accused of gang rape beating. the indian government is seeking life in prison for the assailants the police are still searching for a sixth man in connection with. a mob of two hundred angry people have stormed a police station in southern pakistan killing a man accused of burning a copy of the koran the man was arrested on friday after locals reported him to

police claiming he burned the holy book in a mosque local police detained thirty people for suspected involvement in the attack and suspended seven officers for failing to provide security. for israel the new year will be marked by an election for the new parliament happening earlier than planned for many frequent voting is the embodiment of democracy but the rapid turnaround of ministers and governments is needed to calls for an overhaul of the entire political system what is clear reports call us money as you know him but in my political career i was minister of regional cooperation minister of agriculture minister of housing and construction minister of immigrant and as option and minister of justice even held the supposed signal tenuously but it doesn't mean i'm talented it just shows that the system was so messed up they be toyed. it's a system that's been in place since the founding of the state sixty four years ago

it's seen thirty four governments in sixty four years that's a new israeli government almost every two years and a new minister just as often in the last twenty years there have been twenty interior ministers fourteen foreign ministers and fifteen justice ministers and now more and more israelis are saying enough and joining a movement to change the political system as. a young citizen ghost elections so many times you starts to lose the sense that this is a democracy not for nothing of the past ten years voter turnout has decreased from eighty to sixty four percent whether. there was eventually. but reforming the system is unpopular and has created controversy this online campaign by local celebrities shows whenever someone tries to talk about it they're interrupted. the motions are prime minister says he must call for elections

because he can't pass the budget he's scared that his coalition members may bring down his government and we will act as if. we really say there's no problem with our system. critics say israel's multi-party system gives too much power to smaller parties. we're going to show more that the system here weakens the political center and gives a lot of power to the sick to all parties ultra orthodox ultra reuters right wing extremists and so on and in fact the soon to be becomes a hostage to these marginal groups there is no democracy there's minor roots when crissy the minority rule with a majority what. another problem is that because government ministers change so often they can't plan. bench and today a minister in the state of israel serves for an average of one year until he understands the position and creates a vision and the long term planning he's no longer there. but many of these

people want is a complete overhaul of the system but parliamentary elections slated for early next year israelis are bound to see yet another round of deal making between parties who make up the next coalition but they tolerance is running thin with latest figures suggesting more than half the population is unhappy with his government's performance points here r.t. tel aviv now the mayan calendar has run out but west o'hare some have empty your pockets up next a look at those turning apocalypse into profit stay with us. it sounds like a dragon crashing through the forest but it is in fact technology this is trees and

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